The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

PUCK: Red Shirt has had some cards en-
graved in London. They bear the name, ''Mr
Carmne Undergarment"
1T is said that Secretary Bayard is in very
poor health His face is exceedingly pale and
10 mas long periods OF extreme exhaustion.
1T is estimated that Queen Victorias expenses
for entertaining her royal guests will amount to
1looooo. By strict frugality she stand this
every fifty years.
JOHN RUSSELL YoUNG denies that he has
joined the Anti-poverty party. Mr.. Young
oeneves IN poverty within proper limitations
900 per year.
CHARLES c. BARRY. who resigned the position
OF cashier of the City Bank of Boston, the other
gay. had been in the continuous service of the
bank since 1887 and in active business life for
slxty-seven years.
1T is intimated that Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke
and Mr. Cooke are. this month. to be confirmed
In the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop
WIlllans, OF Connecticut. Hitherto hey have
osionged to the Congregational comm lnion.
T II was young man of Ny,
no ate his ice-cream with a fy.,
He went to Ia,
invented ma,
And made a large fortune in by.
HENRY LABoUCHERE thus criticises Holman
dunts picture, THE Awakened Conscience,
In plain language, 1 should say of this picture
tnat 1t is the art of the nursery, the color of
.no Jan pot ana the sentiment OF the Salvation
Army"
lat any lecture" says telephone girl
"here the speaker can be heard only with diff
ficuty, it will be seen that every listener will
turn the ear he uses at the telephone. This
would seem to prove that the telephone quick
ems rather than dulls the hearing"
MRS. CLEVELAND has her say about refur-
nlshng the White House. She selected the new
carpet for the East Room. It is of her favorite
coiors. pale blue and pink. The friends of
the administration approve it, but the opponents
say 1t Is too delicate for the peoples parlor.
JOHN SLAYBAcK, the superintendent OF
Methodist Sunday school, is said to have made
500, 600 in q recent Wall-street furry by sell
ing stock short and covering" at decline. He
Is one of the bear crowd who have been sarcas-
ticaliy denominated Christians at Work"
VERY shortly after the death of his first wife
Scotch laird made arrangements for a second
marriage. and on asking his son. well-known
replied that he regretted he unable to
tend in consequence of the recent death of his
mothert
GEORGE BRINsKI, who was Mr.. Cleveland's
substitute in the army. according to the Ma
tlonal Tribune, promptly secured detail in the
hospital after his muster into the service July
D, 1908, and was nurse from that time till the
END or the war. When Richmond fell he was on
duty in the General Hospital near City Point
The city of Paris has accepted the copy of
Barthodis statue of Liberty Enlightenin, the
World" to buy which Americans living in Paris
had subscribed so, 000f and will have it put up
on the island in the Seine named Grenelle and
furnished with lighting apparatus at a cost
OF Ioo,ooof, which includes the expense of many
improvements and decorations of the island
IL chronicling the death of a prominent citi-
zen, New Mexico paper says: "His tired
spirit was released from the pain-racked body,
and scared aloft at 4;30 Denver time" And the
Arizona Howler. In noticing the death of a
prominent citizen the other dav, ended with
these words: death loves a shining mark, and
she hit dandy when she turned loose on JIM"
CRAIG ToLLIvER possessed something like
sense of humor. just before he started from
the hotel in Morehead to run the gauntlet of the
sherifs posse, knowing that death wad eertain,
he said They've always said I'd di<naSh my
boots on, I'll be id if do" Accordingly,
he took off his boots and started for the woods in
his stockings. and died without his boots on a
minute later.
AT Scotch jubilee meeting the other day
canny gentleman who weighed his words and
actions carefully as. it well known, the
Scots weigh hay. made the following able obser-
walton: The Queen is discreet and careful
good example l ken weel that her gracious
Majesty will no gle bawbee, so I'll just gle the
same amount mysen."
CHARLES W. SMITH, vce-presdent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, has
man in the country. He has been interested in
through countless disasters on the rail without
a scratch. No train 90 too fast to suit his
taste He is man of iron nerve and likes to
travel at the rate of sixty miles an hour.